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Originally Posted by Nick Nunziata
What's an RSS feed?
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Yeah, it's basically a way of publishing the news content of your site into an XML file. Many news sites have started doing this, for example, NYTimes has an RSS feed for their front page content at
http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/...t/HomePage.xml
The idea behind publishing this file is that I can use an RSS reader to aggregate all of the feeds from my favorite sites. Then, this program can tell me when any of those sites have new articles, as well as give me a preview to the actual content of those articles. It's nice for users as they can quickly and easily see all of the new content in a large number of sites. It's also nice for webmasters as it saves bandwidth since the RSS files are quite small and you no longer have so many people pegging the front page over and over again looking for new content.
It's possible that this functionality is already present in your new contribution backend and that all you have to do is turn it on. Well, hopefully, at least.